THE IMPERMANENT COLLECTION - with Megan Chen & YuYang Liu

The Impermanent Collection imagines an open storage facility for the conservation and development of performance art on the site of the existing Clifton Hill Shot Tower. Our proposal is the next chapter for an otherwise abandoned industrial site and aims to create a 21st century landmark while honouring its 19th century heritage.

Conceived as a campus or complex, the design celebrates both functional and conceptual plurality within a unified space. It challenges the notion of visual art having a singular, superior cultural system by embracing and broadcasting multiple understandings to artists and the wider community.

Following Orcutt’s lead in ‘The Open Storage Solution’, our institution aims to democratise knowledge, and to share curatorial authority with the viewer by allowing meaning to accumulate through profusion rather than isolation. It broadcasts to the public, what the power of a non-discriminatory, inclusive, unsegregated art industry can do for a community.